Alex:
>I use english when I need to comunicate with people which do not know my
>language; I don't use english for comunicating with my family; I do not
>dream in english, I do not count in english, I do not make any
>calculation in English or German. For such kind of things the brain
>switch automaticaly in the "mother language".
How strange. Maybe the problem you evidently have with language acquisition
is that you think you have a mother language. Perhaps I'm unusual but
I can pick up another language like trying on a pair of trousers. In French,
I think in French. My grammar may not be perfect but I don't think in
English and convert to French... I just think in French. By thinking of
_every_
language as one's own, not just one's "mother tongue", it becomes easier
to learn new languages because one can then identify with that language.
It isn't new; it's already "your" language.
As for cultures picking up new languages, get over it. It happens all the
time
and is happening as we breathe. Probably for the same reason -- They no
longer think "us-versus-them" but begin to identify with their "foreign"
counterparts.
Just a thought from gLeNny.
= gLeN
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